The network puts these around an agency: Carrier access, Stronger economics, Agency growth, Expert support, Technology and tools.
Comparison
The master-agency model
How the master-agency model works, who it suits, and where this network differs.
Comparison
The master-agency model
How the master-agency model works, who it suits, and where UAA Network differs.
Written from what organizations using this model publish about themselves, and deliberately not naming them: the useful comparison is between ways of building a network, not between logos. If anything here is out of date or unfair, tell us and it will be corrected. That offer is not decoration.
Side by side
The master-agency model
- The largest alliances in the sector are organized through regional master agencies rather than one national body
- An agency joins through its local master agency, so the terms it is offered can vary from one region to the next
- Very large combined written premium, and track records measured in decades
- Published material tends to lead with growth and with premium volume rather than with economics
UAA Network
- One set of terms, published on this site, the same for everybody
- No regional intermediary between you and the network
- Ownership, split, fees and exit answered before you ask
- Smaller, and not pretending otherwise
Who it is built for
Built around regional relationships.
Where the master-agency model is the right answer, and for which agency.
The master-agency model organizes a national alliance through regional bodies, and that regional layer is the point of it. An agency joining through a good local master agency gets somebody who knows its market, its carriers and its state, and that is a genuinely valuable thing to have. The scale behind it is real too: decades of track record and very large combined premium.
If what you want most is a local relationship inside a very large structure, that is what this model is for.
What it leaves you to solve
What this model leaves on the owner.
Every arrangement puts some risk back on the agency. Here is where this one does, and what we do instead.
- Your terms are set by the region you happen to be in, so two agencies of the same size can be offered different economics.
- There is an intermediary between you and the network, and usually between you and the carrier appointments.
- If your master agency is sold or changes hands, your agreement moves with it rather than staying where you put it.
Every one of those is settled in writing here before you join, and the commercial terms behind them are published in public.
The honest way to choose is to ask both.
Ours takes four questions and gives you an answer at the end, including an honest "not yet".
The honest way to choose is to ask both.
Ours takes four questions and gives you an answer at the end.